Czech this out.....

I was supposed to start a blog back when I arrived in Europe. Oops..... So I am very excited to have the family here and play imposter tour guide. Sadly, I can't offer to much in the way of interesting facts, stats, remarkable stories or traditions from the Czech Republic. I work so much that I am not, Czeching things out as much I should. This is why I am looking forward to having the family here here to explore with.

How I got here........Long story that is still a little unbelievable even to me. I was beginning 2007 in a bad way. Sick, depressed and healing from a spider attack. After several peoples encouragement and urging I left for France where Dad, Beth and the kids were living.

Wow this is a long story.....

Ok so, I arrived in Paris on May15th spent nearly a week there walking the streets alone and visiting museums and monuments. Met some great people and really enjoyed the time there. Then I took off for Bordeaux by train. It was my first time on a high speed train. The trip by car I think is 5 or 6 hours but in the train it took only 2.5 hours. From there I took a bus to one of the farthest corners of France. Dad and Beth were living in the village of Lege' which is where I made my home for almost a month. It was a great time and we all had so much fun exploring and relaxing together. Well, I did most of the relaxing but I enjoyed it. As a final extravagant adventure together in France and a way to culminate all of our experiences there we set off for several days on a house boat a floated through the canals and rivers in south central France.

Prior to us leaving for the house boat trip. I had contacted friends in Prague telling them that due to good time I was having in France with my family and the fast appraoching departure date that I would not be coming for a visit. Also, I was down to very little money. So the day before we set out I get this email from Angelique, my dear friend from Portland whom I had known for 7 years. She informed me that she was passing on my story to people she knew in Prague. Next thing you know Raposa is emailing me with news of a possible job for me. Then the owner of Prague's oldest night club is calling my dad. It all became this buzz amongst as we were preparing for the trip the boat.

After ariving the our boat, "Berry", Dad got a 5 second lesson on how to drive the house down the canal and Beth and I tried to study and learn the manual to be prepared for the locks. We learned that just a few minutes into the excursion we had to pass therough 3 locks, one after another. Ahhhhhhh!!!! Well it was a panic and cool experience. We all were sure we were going to panic and I was having horrible images flash in my head of the boat getting stuck sideways in the lock or something, but it turned out cool. We deffientely felt cool after completing the third and set off drifting in the hot sun.

To celebrate our awesome success, we cracked open a bottle of champagne and took to our much anticipated life of leisure. Not five minutes of sipping on champagne and laying on the roof of the boat in my bathing suit did my phone start ringing. I was excited because the first three numbers were 420. I thought what a stoner number. Anyway I answered and here it is the owner of this nightclub, Radost FX. Bethea and just began chatting very naturally about ourselves and what was going on in our lives and then boom, she said I could have a job decorating the Restaurant/ nightclub if I would be willing to move to Prague. I told her, "Ok, I'll be there Friday." That's it really. Glamour and fortunes made on the canals of Southern France that transpired into National Lampoons Czech Cahill Christmas Vaction.